We don't have England's post-imperial self-importance".
In this section there are almost as many text panels introducing different artists as there are paintings, which looks somewhat daunting but also indicates the Mughals' sense of their own historical importance: imperial biographies frequently mentioned favored artists.
The equites, meanwhile, steadily acquired greater importance as imperial officials.
China's imperial dynasties stressed the importance of being loyal to one's ruler and country and dutiful to one's parents, but when the "Paragons" was banned, it meant that, of loyalty and filial piety, only loyalty remained — loyalty to the Communist Party.
After the Nika riots, the factions grew less violent as their importance in imperial ceremony increased.
Despite the importance of the imperial idea at this time, peninsular fractionalist tendencies were by no means dormant.
His birthplace, Aosta, was a town of strategic importance in Roman imperial and in medieval times, because it stood at the juncture of the Great and Little St. Bernard routes.
A subordinate legal agent of the classical system, the procurator, who attended to the formal aspects of litigation, took on added importance because later imperial legal procedure depended largely on written documents that the procurators produced.
He returned to the subject in 1990 with "Constitutionalism, Democracy and Foreign Affairs," a much more impassioned book, that warned of the dangers of an imperial presidency and insisted on the importance of human rights as a cornerstone of American foreign policy.
But Frederick was more conscious of its importance as a source justifying imperial actions.
